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It's About Time… It’s About Time… Volume 4 Number 4 Fall 2000 TO THE SISTERS IN THE BLACK NEWS BRIEFS LIBERATION STRUGGLE *Sacramento - California will for- feit about 590 million dollars in federal The African matching funds for children without health woman continues to be insurance. A bill which earmarked a share exploited, as an Afri- of the state’s tobacco settlement to insure can, as a worker, and as working parents and their children died a woman. She suffers in the legislature due to inaction. from both mental and With 7.5 million Californians lack- physical oppression and ing insurance and their ranks growing abuse. In industrial cit- every month, SB673 by Sen. Martha ies and in rural areas, Escutia was hailed as the best opportu- more African women nity to stem the crisis. The legislature and families live below failed to act on the bill and many others the poverty line than in before the current term ran out. 1970. Trapped in low- These people should be run out of paying jobs, our chil- office. Legislators work for us, the people. Employees in the private sector who failed dren suffer at the hands of a poor educational system and the to do their jobs would be fired. Do not re- abusive police. elect them. Hold your elected officials The African woman must organize and be educated (broth- responsible. ers also). Set your sights on permanent change that will trans- *San Francisco - A federal appeals form our society and the conditions of our people - a true lib- panel has narrowed the powers of police eration struggle. We must strive for complete change, not just to search the homes of hundreds of thou- reforms. We must fight against all ideas, traditions and prac- sands of Californians on probation. The tices that hold us back from true emancipation. panel wrote that probationer’s homes can FORWARD ALWAYS! only be searched under the terms of pro- bation. They cannot be searched as a mere subterfuge for the pursuit of a new crimi- CUBA OFFERS TO SEND DOCTORS TO U.S. nal investigation. *U.S. Prisoners Number Over 2 Mil- Before the Cuban Revolution 41 years ago, there were only 6,000 doctors in Cuba. lion - You know the facts!! Now there are 66,000 doctors in Cuba and 3,000 Cuban doctors are in service in other *Los Angeles - Operation Easy countries. The Cuban National Assembly recently offered to send an undetermined num- Money - The L.A. Sheriff’s Department ber of doctors to Mississippi and other U.S. states where trained medical personnel are in suspended 4 deputies and 7 civilian em- short supply. ployees for stealing credit cards and ob- Cuba has also offered free medical training in Cuba for 500 Americans; targeting taining one million dollars in cash. African-Americans, Latino-Americans, Native Americans and people from other poor *Montebello - Southern California communities. Cuban leader Fidel Castro made the offer in May to visiting U.S. lawmak- Gas Co. was fined $3.5 million for forc- ers from the Congressional Black Caucus. ing about 500 landowners to sell mineral Before the 1959 revolution, there was no system for public health and there was rights at unfair prices and lying about it only one public hospital in Havana. Public health care was scarce in the countryside. to regulators. Today, 46 hospitals provide medical education, including specialty training, and there *California - $365 million has been are 4 formal medical schools. Health care is available and free to all citizens from birth. allotted to build a prison hospital in Despite the scarcity of resources due to the economic embargo imposed the U.S., Cuba Coalinga, which will house up to 1500 has a model health care system. prisoners. We need more schools - not See News Briefs on Page 2 SPONSORED BY - It’s About Time Committee & Black Panther Party Alumni Committee For More Information: P.O. Box 221100 • Sacramento, CA 95822 • Ph: 916-455-0908 • Website: itsabouttimebpp.com SACRAMENTO P.D. THE SELMA ELECTION ARE RECKLESS DRIVERS By Gaidi Faraj On October 2, 2000, the crowd overflowed into the hall of the The city of Sacramento has paid $2.9 million to settle a law- Selma City Council chambers as people gathered to witness the his- suit stemming from another police patrol car wreck. This is the toric swearing in of Selma’s first Black Mayor, James Perkins, Jr. fifth person in less than 2 years to receive a huge payment as a Perkins defeated the nine term incumbent Joe T. Smitherman in result of a police patrol car accident, costing the taxpayers a total a run-off election on September 12. This was Perkins third attempt to of $9.9 million. This reflects a disregard for human safety and tax- unseat the segregation era Smitherman, and the first time he made it payers should not have to subsidize reckless behavior by the po- to a run-off. Perkins received 6,230 votes to Smitherman’s 4,884. lice. Individuals should be held accountable! Both of these totals were way up from the vote totals in the general election in which Perkins and Smitherman received 4,076 and 4,352 votes respectively. Going against the trend of low voter turnout across FIRESTONE TIRES SCANDAL the country, well over 50% of Selma’s citizens voted in this election. Selma is known for its role in the Voting Rights Movement in To date, 103 people have been reported the 1960’s. It gained national attention in 1965 when a group of civil killed in accidents involving Firestone tires. rights workers were savagely beaten by racist state troopers and local The National Highway Traffic Safety Admin- whites as they attempted to march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, which leads out of Selma towards the Alabama State capital of Mont- istration said it received about 800 reports of gomery. Two weeks later the marchers successfully completed the tire tread separation, blowouts, and other prob- march with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Kwame Toure among those lems with the tires since Aug. 31, 2000. There making the trek. have been reports of over 400 injuries. Most Joe T. Smitherman was mayor of Selma during the attack on the accidents have involved the Ford Explorer, the marchers in 1965 and once referred to King as Martin Luther Coon. world’s top-selling sports utility vehicle, on which Firestone tires He was a supporter of segregation and fought recent efforts in Selma are standard equipment. to remove the Confederate battle flag from the city seal. Continental General Tire announced it will replace 160,000 The effort to defeat Smitherman put Selma back in the national spot- tires - mostly from Lincoln Navigators - because they were found light as activists from around the country came to support the effort to get to be susceptible to losing tread. Bridgestone/Firestone Inc. re- him out of office after 36 years. Geronimo ji Jaga made several trips to called 6.5 million ATX, ATX II and Wilderness AT tires. Selma and encouraged others to get involved. Following his lead celeb- Firestone didn’t announce the recall until August, but Ford rities like actor Sean Penn also descended on Selma to attend mass meet- began a recall of Firestone tires in 16 countries more than a year ings and offer words of encouragement. Others who came for various before the U.S. recall. Also, there are lawsuits dating back a de- events include Martin Luther King III, Dick Gregory, Rev. Fred cade regarding claims of tire tread separation. Shuttlesworth and numerous delegations representing the NAACP, SCLC The N.Y. Times reported in 1999 that Federal traffic accident and other community and college based organizations. data showed that 52 people died in 40 accidents in Explorers in Selma also has a reputation for being one of the more racially which the tires were the problem, twice as many as 1998. divided cities in this part of the country, with White voters almost We believe that this is a clear case of Corporate Greed and unanimously supporting the White incumbent and the Black commu- Criminal Activity resulting in the loss of human life. nity supporting Perkins. Perkins’ campaign centered on the idea of truth and reconciliation which drew implicit parallels between Selma NEWS BRIEFS from Page 1 and South Africa. Many Whites made public statements that if Perkins were elected, the White businesses in town would flee and Selma more prisons! would go into severe economic decline. Very few Whites attended *Berlin, Germany - Three neo-nazis were found guilty of the the inauguration. racist murder of Alberto Adriano from Mozambique. One will The racial divide was evident at the swearing in ceremony where receive a life sentence and the others nine years each. Perkins was sworn in with the new city council which has six Blacks *Los Angeles - More Convictions Tossed in LAPD Scandal - and three Whites. Each member was sworn in individually. All of the Clinton Harris, 36, will be freed. He was framed by two undercover Black members were sworn in by Black judges or ministers while all cops at the center of the police corruption probe. This ruling brings of the White members of the council elected to be sworn in by a to 98 the number of cases dismissed due to police corruption. White judge, a symbolic representation of the divide between these two communities. *California - According to the U.S. Census Bureau, whites are no longer a majority in the state. *Washington - The Supreme Court barred California from dispensing marijuana to people who are sick or in pain.
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